Leaving the beaten tracks in creative work - A design theory for systems that support convergent and divergent thinking

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 714-740

  Müller Wienbergen, Felix ^a   Müller, Oliver ^b   Seidel, Stefan ^b   Becker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

Convergent thinking; Creativity; Creativity support systems; Design theory; Divergent thinking

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVERGENT THINKINGS; CREATIVITY; CREATIVITY SUPPORT SYSTEM; DESIGN THEORY; DIVERGENT THINKINGS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 82355190453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00280     Document Type: Article

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